Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Louisiana Lightweight has left the building
Launched all too long ago with hopelessly high hopes, the presidential run of Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is no more. It has ceased to be.
Once a rising star in the Republican party, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has ended his campaign for the 2016 presidential nomination.The poor little 'blue parrot' of this years politics never could figure out if he needed to be sane or batshit crazy. And every time he tried to be batshit crazy he presented himself as more frightened than the barshit crazy voters. So now the former presidential candidate and soon to be ex-governor of Louisiana will try and cadge a sinecure with a right wing think tank. Sadly we haven't heard the last of him.
“It has been a great honor for me to run for president of the United States,” he said, announcing his decision during an interview on Fox news. “This is not my time. I’ve come here to announce that I’m suspending my campaign for the presidency.”
Jindal said that he had decided to withdraw, in part, “given this crazy unpredictable election season”.
Jindal’s campaign had focused heavily on the crucial early state of Iowa. The Louisiana governor essentially camped there in an attempt to appeal to the evangelical social conservatives who make a significant proportion of caucus-goers. Jindal had shown some success in doing so in recent weeks, climbing as high as 6% in one recent poll of the state. However, it proved not to be enough for his campaign.
He faced a variety of obstacles. Jindal was long hamstrung by weak national poll numbers, anemic fundraising as well as low approval ratings in his home state –where only a third of voters approved of his leadership. His poor performance in national polls meant that he was kept off the main stage in presidential debates and instead relegated to the undercard debate. Jindal’s campaign complained ferociously about this exclusion to the RNC.
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